The Cheltenham Gold Cup is probably a three (and a bit) horse race...

Published: Tue, 02/09/16

There were some serious festival players not quite doing the business last weekend, with a few more bubbles popping or momentarily deflating.


The main perpetrators this time around being Ivanovich Gorbatov, Bellshill, On The Fringe, Road To Riches and Peace And Co, who all failed to justify cramped odds in their respective races whilst at the same time doing some serious damage to their Cheltenham Festival odds.


The weekend wasn’t only about those shorties getting turned over though, far from it, and there was plenty going on up and down the country to tickle our National Hunt taste buds, so here’s my sideways swipe on the jumping action in this week’s ‘What we learned from the weekend‘ post...


In today's post I look at ...

1. Why Bristol De Mai's win at the weekend was EVEN better than it looked.

2. Why the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner almost certainly wasn't contesting the Irish (Hennessy) Gold Cup.

3. Why connections are probably aiming Le Reve at the WRONG spring target.

All of the above served with the usual hefty splash of trends, stats and opinions in today's...

 

Ben (NTF)
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